portable way to do nap()

Robert Claeson robert at pvab.UUCP
Mon Oct 10 09:38:15 AEST 1988


In article <27909 at ccicpg.UUCP>, nick at ccicpg.UUCP (Nick Crossley) writes:

> In article <543 at mpx1.UUCP> erik at mpx1.UUCP (Erik Murrey) writes:

> >How can I do a portable nap()?  A nap() (under XENIX) allows
> >a user process to block for a short time, usually a few hundred ms.

> According to the information given out at the SysVr4 Software Developer
> Conference, nap will be in V.4.

And since SVR3.2 is supposed to include most (all?) of Xenix, nap() should
be in it, too.
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